Total vindication for the Immortal Science, tho...

Women are more resilient than men during Army Ranger training…but let’s do go on denying women in the military their earned promotions while simultaneously completely misunderstanding the physiological role & variation of testosterone. Stupidity & cruelty are an incredibly dangerous combination.

Our #HERIspotlight shines brightly on @Dr Wendy Black. A founding member of HERI, Wendy helped shape our direction and impact. As she turns to a new role at @Iziko, we celebrate her contributions and say THANK YOU! Read more: www.heriuct.co.za/news-content/herispotlight-wendy-black

JOB ALERT! We are recruiting at @ucl-c4ia.bsky.social - a lecturer (Grade 8) or associate professor (Grade 9) in primate or human evolutionary anatomy (research and teaching). Contact Susan Evans or myself for further details. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRZ412/l...

Are they going to Weekend at Bernie’s him?

Truly the worst thing about the American Century of Humiliation is that we're not just getting roasted by rising economic powers like China, but by countries like Belgium, whose median age is like 400 years old, whose major export is blood diamonds and who still won't take down King Leopold statues.

✨Wonderful news from our diamond open access, community owned PaleoAnthropology journal! 🎉

We're hiring an associate/full professor in paleoanthropology in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University - As Katie Hinde says - come join our science party in the desert!!

🐘 check out our newest paper from Liang Bua! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Did H. floresiensis hunt Stegodon? 🔪 Did they also had control use of fire? 🔥 We tested these early claims of complex behavior using taphonomy, experimental archaeology, and zooarchaeology of the Stegodon assemblage.

Incredible moment where Fox News puts up a graphic with all the reasons it opposes the DSA and why people should be afraid of them

Were the hobbits of Flores clever hunters, or were they merely scavenging dragon leftovers? My latest for Nat Geo covers fascinating new work from @egveatch.bsky.social and the team at Liang Bua: www.nationalgeographic.com/science/arti... 🧪🏺

Interesting review & reconciliation of fossil and molecular data re: the chimp-human evolutionary split. I was fascinated by this issue when I started grad school 20 years ago, love that something seemingly so simple is still so challenging to pin down #FossilFriday link.springer.com/article/10.1...

What a great article not only on faculty workloads, but how little our salaries actually factor in to most university budgets. A few highlights. First, our salaries are falling:

#FossilFriday is for exploring paleo data, like brain endocast shape in Homo naledi and other long-gone humans lawnchairanthropology.com/2026/07/02/o...

Happy to share that our work is finally published in @commsbio.nature.com! We identify molecular and cellular signatures of hemispheric specialization, linking language and attention to distinct neurotransmitter, mitochondrial, & cellular organization across the cortex 🧠 doi.org/10.1038/s420...

Open access opens the skull of Homo naledi lawnchairanthropology.com/2026/07/02/o...

even if it was good policy, this shit is completely ancillary to the goal of actually limiting the power of big tech. Elon Musk has a trillion dollars and is trying to start a global race war, your response to that can’t be “kids should be on their phones less”

🚨 PhD opportunity 🚨 Join @palevoprim.bsky.social as part of the #ReVol project (@cnrs.fr & Wits Joint PhD Programme)! Spend 3 years investigating the southern African fossil cercopithecoids to reconstruct past ecology and behavior through skeletal morphology and dental microwear.

Giving a talk on my archaeology of NYC water book next week. July 8 at Millbrook library in Dutchess County, NY. Registration in link engagedpatrons.org/EventsExtend...

Planning a fall filled with community projects. On September 26th there will be cemetery walking tours around the Ashokan Reservoir in collaboration with the Olive Free Library and the cemetery organizations. Sign up details in image

Very, very happy that our paper is finally out! We look at how tight a fit primates experience at birth, and found really cool results. It has been a long journey from collecting the first data seven years ago! A brief thread (1/8) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Long-bone cortical structure in diaphyses changes during growth via skeletal modeling. Femoral micro-CT comparison of humans vs chimps shows shared early remodeling but divergent cross-sectional shape tied to locomotion. Swan et al.: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Interested in the principles shaping connectome architecture? See our latest in @cp-cell.bsky.social led by F Normand @nsb-lab.bsky.social A simple model using geometric eigenmodes captures cortical connectomes of different species. Paper: tinyurl.com/3r43spf5 Thread: tinyurl.com/vx74hp6u

The right takes academia seriously, and is pouring money into neutering it. Would be good to see left wing politicians taking academia equally seriously, and taking action to support it www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Why Do Humans Exercise? A Neuro‐Evolutionary Framework for Discretionary Physical Effort onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

What’s remarkable about all this stuff is the stolen valor. You didn’t build shit, you won a birth lottery. You are a podcaster not Emperor Vespasian. bsky.app/profile/just...

Hello Hello, If you have some downtime and want to read something excitingly odd, read on the enamel proteins of Homo naledi: www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... Working closely with Alberto, @clairekoenig.bsky.social, @ipatramanis.bsky.social, and the rest of our collaborators was just so wonderful.

Like extremely well-paid - this is where all that money that is supposed to be used to hire actual humanities scholars at public universities to do actual peer-reviewed research and teach courses that aren't geared toward ideological indoctrination is going careers.historians.org/jobs/rss/223...

🚨First-ever protein study of Homo Naledi teeth led by HERI’s Dr @palaeoprotpalesa.bsky.social finds zero male markers in 23 samples - suggesting all individuals analysed were female. A major step forward in studying sex differences in extinct species. 🔗 www.heriuct.co.za/news-content...

www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026... Sent with my Daily Maverick App (app.dailymaverick.co.za) @johnhawks.net @leerberger.bsky.social @heriuct.bsky.social

The first molecular evidence of Homo naledi from at least 20 individuals shows that none are male. I've taken a deep dive into how the paleoproteomics works, what it says about naledi relationships, and why this result is less surprising than it sounds. www.johnhawks.net/p/the-first-...

This has got to be the weirdest human evolution story I've ever covered. I'm still baffled -- yes, baffled -- by these results. 🏺🧪

Scientific American is 180 years old. The most eminent science magazine for the general public. And today, sold off as scrap to stop the staff from unionizing. Many top editors I've worked with for a decade on several articles have been fired. What a disgrace @sciam.bsky.social

So happy and proud to see this paper out in @natcomms.nature.com today! We show that traces of human DNA can persist on cave walls for thousands of years. Absolutely fantastic work by the wonderful Alba Bossoms Mesa at @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social and a great team! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

excited about this one: using longitudinal movement data and dyadic models, we show that orangutan moms adjust their ranging patterns so their kids can play with age-mates independent of kinship, at personal costs. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Nice summary of our recent paper on the brain of Homo naledi www.iflscience.com/homo-naledis...

We’re hiring a Research Assistant🚨 Interested in human evolution and African prehistory? We’re looking for someone with excellent organisational skills who will be based in Cambridge, with fieldwork opportunities in Kenya🇰🇪 Deadline: 01.07.2026 🔗 Apply online:
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

I don't feel sorry for Starmer. I feel for the Palestinians whose slaughter he enabled, for the trans people and refugees he's victimised, and my colleagues who've had their careers wrecked by Labour's assault on universities. A record to be ashamed of.

We let Silicon Valley engage in mass human experimentation without having the ethical or social discussions of whether we should or should not do certain things. OpenAI forced everyone’s hand into the AI space despite significant warnings from some. And now we have to clean up at scale.

“We use geometric morphometry to reconstruct the most complete Homo naledi endocast & find a unique combination of ancestral & modern human-like characteristics: a derived frontal lobe but ancestral size, morphology & cerebrocerebellar proportions.” @dizachster.bsky.social @johnhawks.net in BS&F: 💀🧪

my group is looking for a HiWi (student assistant) to help transcribe narrative interviews for our project on Inuit health and well-being. Must be a student enrolled in a bachelor or master's program at a German University. Link here: www.eva.mpg.de/career/posit...

How salient is human eye appearance compared to that of other primates? This excellent new study by Perea-García et al. suggests that under some conditions, chimp-like eyes actually have a signalling advantage. 🧪 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Check out the brain endocast of Homo naledi this #FossilFriday with open access data and R code lawnchairanthropology.com/2026/05/15/p... Open access article: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

New in @science.org ...since our first discoveries of early tetrapods, they have been thought of as "amphibians" characterized by aquatic larvae. But is this true? For the first time, we report exceptional fossils of stem tetrapod babies that upend this paradigm. 1/n www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Hot of the press! 🧠🦴 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Digital atlas of cortical sulcal imprints on #Pan endocasts now out in open access in the @journalofanatomy.bsky.social!" @palevoprim.bsky.social, @cam-archaeology.bsky.social, @cnrsecologie.bsky.social, @fondationfyssen.bsky.social

What does the most complete endocast of Homo naledi tell us about the brain and behavior of this most unexpected, recently extinct human species? #FossilFriday link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Now in one place: all our episodes on human evolution, pre-history, and the challenges of reconstructing the deep past. Enjoy! open.spotify.com/playlist/2bM...

The thing is you gotta be obsessed with the Nazi regime to even reach for a Bonhoeffer reference here and you gotta be an incredibly twisted soul to think Bonhoeffer’s nonviolent heroism is the tragedy we can’t repeat in that story.

“It is time to break decisively with the perverse logic in which retirees, the poor or immigrants are expected to balance the budget, while the rich are to be allowed to live tax-free in their own parallel society.” - @gabrielzucman.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...